Sentences with phrase «effective chemotherapy»

The time came for the inevitable CT scan which would determine how effective the chemotherapy had been.

This could yield more effective chemotherapies for fibrolamellar in the near future, he says.

If more Americans adopted more healthy lifestyles, such as quitting smoking, and were screened for colon cancer and had access to optimal treatment (such as more effective chemotherapy), deaths from colon cancer could be reduced by 50 percent by 2020, the report predicted.

«These findings are important for cancer treatments, as currently there are no drug therapies for enchondromas and there are no universally effective chemotherapies for chondrosarcomas,» said senior author Benjamin Alman, M.D., chair of the Orthopaedic Surgery Department at Duke University Medical Center.

For years, docetaxel has been the only effective chemotherapy for men whose cancer was no longer responding to hormone treatments.

One form of breast cancer called «triple negative» breast cancer is known for its biological aggressiveness and lack of effective chemotherapy options.

The most effective chemotherapy protocol is a multi-agent chemotherapy; several different drugs (vincristine, Cytoxan and Adriamycin) are alternated in order to reduce the chance that the tumor cells will become resistant and to reduce the risk of side effects.

«People are living longer thanks to more effective chemotherapy and cancer treatments,» says Dr. Winocur.

The collection contains over 20,000 different samples of Salmonella, with half of the samples housed at the Cancer Research Center where researchers affiliated with MU focus on three areas of cancer research: early detection, targeted treatment and new, effective chemotherapy.

So we're hoping that we'll be able to make progress in advanced pancreatic cancer for which there is basically no effective chemotherapy.

Although there are no effective chemotherapies for metastatic kidney cancer, about 20 percent of patients treated with high doses of an immune system stimulant called interleukin - 2, have a full or partial regression.

Although many vets refer these pets on to a veterinary oncologist there is really no effective chemotherapy for dog or cats that I feel is worth the suffering they will experience in chemotherapy or the short extension of their lives that it might bring.